Heaven's Greatest Professor

The captain and his soldiers were first to leave, though they did have lunch before leaving. Then it was Jason's turn to leave, while June left the next morning. In the morning session, he evaluated everyone's progress and gave them all the praise and rewards they needed to finally turn towards returning to the front lines.

Gale intended to return with the rest of the adepts, but Jenni begged him to go with her to Myrin City, where she would be meeting her father's friend to call off her marriage. He didn't understand what his place was in her matter, but considering how much he was involved already, he agreed, thinking it would only take a couple of hours with fast teleportation.

It had been a nerve-wracking issue for Jenni for years; she needed someone to reassure her. If not him, perhaps Dawn could fulfil the role.

So, while the adepts took the route to the front lines, Jenni, Dawn, and Gale teleported directly to Myrin.

"When did Sis Agnes leave?" Jenni asked, finally remembering there was another person with them in the guest house. "She didn't say goodbye, nor did I see her leave."

"She'll be back when there's a need for it..." Gale muttered. Closing his eyes, he glimpsed Agnes's figure to find her thoroughly invested in the absorption process. She had been doing it wholeheartedly since the beginning. After the first few days, she was beginning to spend even her resting hours inside the soul domain, saying it was easier to get into the flow and meditate there.

Back to the city of Myrin... It was a high overstatement to call it a city. It was still in a developing state... It hadn't been long since a layer of the Wasteland was tamed, and now they were trying to raise a huge city here.

Thankfully, they had built a long-distance teleportation formation first, solving their issue of covering the distance through traditional forms of travel. June told him there was an arcane academy here, with a very close tie to the military.

"So where to go from here?" Gale just asked when a couple of attendants came to welcome them as though they already had knowledge of them coming here. Well, they particularly welcomed Jenni, while looking at them confusedly, wondering why they were here.

"They are with me," Jenni said, snorting.

"Of course, miss," the female attendant said. "Sir asked us to bring you as it will take him a couple of hours to finish his business before he can join you."

Jenni frowned. "Bring me where?" she asked. "And why hadn't he said he's busy with other things? Then I would have come late."

"It was an emergency issue," said the man. "Something related to a dungeon break..."

Jenni nodded and turned to Gale and Dawn. "Should we go back and come back later?"

"There's no need, miss," said the female attendant. "Sir has prepared first-class rooms, meals, and everything else before he joins..."

"Only for me, or for my companions as well?"

The attendants exchanged glances before turning to smile at Jenni again. "Of course, your guests are our guests."

"They are not my guests," Jenni snorted. "Friend," she said, pointing at Dawn. Her eyes moved to Gale. "And Mentor?"

The attendants exchanged another glance before they brought them to the lavish guesthouse they so much liked to describe. Thankfully, it wasn't all a showoff.

"Huh, Velvet Kiss," Jenni muttered, lifting her head to see the whole establishment. "I have never been to any of their guest houses, though I heard a lot about them."

This chain of the Velvet Kiss seemed to match with the one Gale stayed in for some time, even though the rest of the building around the establishment paled in comparison. The attendant reminded him the whole Spirit Hunter Guild was staying here, though most of them were out on the expedition. They had a huge stake in the house, also in the development of the city as well.

Jenni was completely bored listening to the attendants talking about the Spirit Hunter Guild, but Gale listened carefully. Unlike Jason's idea of a guild, Spirit Hunter felt more like a business corporation than a monster-hunting guild. Well, they recently made it into gold rank, of course, they would have other stakes to grow to such a length.

Unable to endure any more, Jenni shooed them away as they had lunch together. Finished eating, Gale gave the two ladies time and decided to relax in the bath. This chain of the Velvet Kiss certainly hadn't given less attention to the private baths.

For half an hour, he remained submerged in the water, thinking about nothing. After thinking a little, he manifested an avatar inside his soul domain to find Agnes meditating out in the open.

"How is it going outside?" she asked, noticing his approach.

"The vacation is over and I'm on the way to the front lines," he said. "Well, currently on a detour with Jenni taking care of her marriage."

She lifted an eyebrow. "Should I get out now?"

"Well, she could use your reassurance, though you have to wait sometime to come out."

"Why?"

"I'm in the bath..."

"So?" She smirked at him.

"I wouldn't want to give the attendants the wrong idea about a woman appearing out of nowhere."

Agnes snorted. "It has been some time since I had a bath... I was thinking of taking a dip in the lake before you leave... but it looks like I got too busy with the dark essence."

"Well, let me finish bathing, then I'll let you out and help you purify," he said.

"Thanks..."

He opened his mouth to say something, but his mouth remained hung open as he tilted his head. I think Dawn is calling me... See you later...

His avatar disappeared, while Gale opened his eyes in the bath to sense her figure on the other side of the door.

He stood up, as clothes began to appear on his body, while all the water was vaporising, leaving him completely dry. "What is it?" he asked and opened the door.

"I think there's a dungeon break," she said. "Everyone is panicking."

Gale frowned. He extended his void perception to its maximum extent, carefully monitoring his Soul Domain to avoid overexertion, until he finally detected the havoc running among the residents. People were running in all directions unsure which way to go...

the legal party in charge of the defence weren't completely employed yet, as stray teams of enforcers tried to calm down the crowd to the best of their capability.

There were people littered in line in front of the Warp Gate formation, waiting for their turn to exit from the city. Another group of enforcer were restricting a crowd from entering the warp gate.

"Looks like pretty serious business," he muttered, even though he found no signs of monsters yet. "Where's Jenni?"

Before she could answer, his perception found her. She was still within Velvet Kiss, a couple of guys were trying to force her into safety, while she cursed at their whole ancestry, as they weren't listening to her at all.

"Let's go find her before she does something very Jenni-like."